If you are looking for the downloadable WATERLOO mapboard and counters files,
click on this graphic to go to the Waterloo page:

If you are looking for the downloadable FRANCE, 1940 mapboard and counters files,
click on this graphic to go to the France, 1940 page:

If you are looking for my downloadable playtest counter and map sheet templates, click on
this graphic to go to the Playtest Templates page:

If you are looking for my downloadable SPI icon files, click on
this graphic to go to the SPI Icon Library page:

If you are looking for my downloadable wargame terrain tiles, click on
this graphic or scroll further down this page:

To see my wargame counter art gallery, click this graphic:

The Game of Go

I am an afficianado of the beautiful ancient Asian game of go.
I consider myself a rank beginner (20 kyu), but a big fan of the game
just the same. Below are pictures of the go equipment I own. All of it
was purchased at Samarkand,
which is also where the pictures come from. If you love go, then
you absolutely must check them out. They have some of the finest go
equipment you will find anywhere in the U.S.

To the left is a picture of what my Agathis table board looks like.
The bowls pictured with the board are not the bowls I have.
To the right is a picture of the bowls I have.

This magnificent Katsura floor board is the go board I'd like to own
someday. At a mere $1200 (for a 6.5" board), it doesn't bestow
nearly as much prestige as a genuine Kaya floor board, but I'm not
enough of a go fanatic yet to spend over $6000 just for a board!

And here are the bowls I'd like to own someday. Are they gorgeous or
what! At $450 a pair, they don't get any finer unless you are willing
to pay $1350 for a pair of genuine Kaya wood bowls.

Mah Jongg

I have also recently become a fan of the game of Mah Jongg.
I just love those tiles! I love their solid feel, the clattering sound
they make when you shuffle them, the way they look when formed into the
Wall, and the wonderful Asian artwork on each one. This is definitely a
game for the sensualist! And it is a fun, addictive game to boot! Below
is a picture of the tile set I have. It is a full 160-tile set, plus a
few spares. Click on the image to see a (much) larger view.

White Wolf Stuff

Here's the part where I shamelessly mention the stuff I wrote for
White Wolf Game Studio
in the early 90s as a freelancer. That was a short-lived career,
mostly because I discovered that even though I loved playing RPGs,
I hated writing for them. It just wasn't fun. And it certainly didn't
pay very well.
I co-wrote Dark Colony and wrote an adventure for
Digital Web. Click on them to see larger images of the book
covers.

Dark Colony

Digital Web

Terrain Tiles

If you are an hobbyist wargame designer like me, you probably know
how hard it is to find wargame terrain graphics for use in making
your own mapboards. Well, I took the time to scan the Letratone
sheets that have the good old traditional wargame terrain graphics
you've seen on countless wargames from the 70s and 80s, and have
turned them into simple black & white, repeating tiles that you
can use in any common graphics program.

With a little graphical finesse, you can colorize them to suit your
needs and whip up maps like this:

I have scanned five different terrain types (woods, light woods,
mountain, rough, and swamp), each in three different resolutions
(72dpi, 180dpi, and 300dpi). Each tile is approximately 3.5 inches
on a side and is a repeating texture in TIFF format. There are five
ZIP archives here for you to download, one for each terrain type.
Each archive contains all three resolutions of that particular terrain.